100 most popular Rumi quotes on love, life and friendship – Sufiyana Soul

When things beyond our comprehension happen to us, one of the best things that keeps us going is poetry and what better way to celebrate life than with the Rumi quotes about love, life and friendships.

Born in 1207, the 13th century poet in Persia, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī or simply Rumi in the west became one of the most prominent poets in the world.

A scholar and Sufi mystic, his poems arise out of love, his separation from Shams Tabriz and deaths. His mourning over the loss of his friendship with Shams Tabriz made Rumi pen over 40,000 verses as odes, quatrains, eulogies and other styles of poetries. His motivational quotes and inspirational sayings are one of the most searched query all over the internet.

Today, Rumi is one of most read poets in the US. The world and his words have helped people sail over the toughest hurricanes in life, restoring hope, faith and positivity in the minds of the down-trodden.

As a way of remembering his genius and his wisdom, here are some of the finest Rumi quotes on love, life and friendship.

Best Rumi Quotes On Love

1 . We are all born of love. Love is our mother. – Rumi

2. This is called love – to fly towards a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils fall each moment. First let go of life. And finally to take a step without feet. – Rumi

3.The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lover’s don’t finally meet somewhere but are in each other all along. – Rumi

4. Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi

5. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than joy or sorrow. Love is beyond either condition – without spring and without autumn, it is always fresh. – Rumi

7. I have no companion but love – no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of love, set me free.’ – Rumi

8. Through love, all that is bitter will be sweet. Through love, all that is copper will be gold. Through love, all dregs will become wine and through love, all pain will turn into medicine. – Rumi

9. Love will always find its way through all languages on its own. – Rumi

10. How much ever I might try to expound or explain love, when I come to love myself, I am ashamed of my explanations. Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. – Rumi

11. The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms. Yet, they testify to invisible love. – Rumi

12. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. – Rumi

13. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. – Rumi

14. If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you from the beginning of me. – Rumi

15. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

16. I am yours. Don’t ever give myself back to me. – Rumi

17. When I am with you, we stay up all night. And when you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias and the difference between them. – Rumi

18. There are two who are never satisfied – the lover of knowledge and the lover of the world. – Rumi

19. Wherever you are and whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi

20. At a distance, you only see my light. Come closer and know that I am you. – Rumi

21. The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. – Rumi

22. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes because for those who love with their heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation. – Rumi

23. In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where nobody sees you but sometimes I do and that sight becomes art. – Rumi

24. I want to see you, know your voice and recognize you when you first come around the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you’ve just left, know the lift of your heel and the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper more. – Rumi

25. It’s only from the heart that you can touch the sky. – Rumi

26. Every story is us. – Rumi

27. The moment I heard first about love, I gave up my soul, my heart and my eyes. – Rumi

28. You are the road of love and at the end of my home. – Rumi

29. Love is not an emotion but your very existence. – Rumi

30. Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces. – Rumi

31. It is the scent of home that keeps me going the hope of union, the face of my beloved. – Rumi

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Aravind is a perpetually enthusiastic and euphoric guy, anxiously awaiting his quarter-life crisis. A passionate Himalayan trekker, he is always up for adventure and exploration. He believes success is subjective and equates success with happiness. He is happy before going to bed and believes that makes him successful.